Your life path number
Arithmetic on your birth date, reduced to a single digit. We hold back 11, 22 and 33 the way most modern systems hold them.
Your life path number
Each part of the date is reduced on its own before they are added. A flat digit sum would destroy any master number hiding inside the date, which is why the order matters.
The nine paths, and the three masters
Every date reduces to one of twelve results. Nine single digits, plus 11, 22 and 33. Modern systems hold those three back from the last reduction, because they read a doubled digit as the same trait under more pressure.
1The initiator
Associated with independence and starting things rather than joining them.
2The mediator
Associated with partnership, patience and reading a room.
3The communicator
Associated with expression, humour and work that gets seen.
4The builder
Associated with structure, method and finishing what was begun.
5The changer
Associated with movement, variety and a low tolerance for routine.
6The carer
Associated with family, responsibility and being the one people call.
7The analyst
Associated with study, solitude and taking nothing on trust.
8The organiser
Associated with authority, money and scale.
9The humanitarian
Associated with service, endings and letting go.
11Master 11
The 2 held unreduced — intuition and nervous energy in the same package.
22Master 22
The 4 held unreduced — building at a scale bigger than yourself.
33Master 33
The 6 held unreduced — care extended past the family to the group.
Worked through, by hand
An example, until you enter a date of your own. Take 29 November 1994. Reduce each part on its own first, then add what is left:
- Day29 → 2 + 9 = 11 (a master number, so it stops here)
- Month11
- Year1994 → 1 + 9 + 9 + 4 = 23 → 2 + 3 = 5
- Total11 + 11 + 5 = 27 → 2 + 7 = 9
Adding all eight digits straight through gives 9 as well here, but not always. A flat sum destroys any master number sitting inside the date. That is why the parts are reduced separately first. That order is the one real disagreement between numerology systems.
Method
This one isn't astronomy
Everything else on this site is computed from planetary positions. Numerology is a separate tradition with its own rules and no connection to the sky. It is arithmetic on the digits of a date. We include it because people look for it, and because it is cheap to do correctly. And we label it plainly, rather than imply the ephemeris had anything to do with it.
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